It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

  • -- Imre Lakatos 拉卡托斯

如果认为一个人必须坚持一个研究项目,直到它用尽了所有的启发式能力,在所有人都同意可能已经达到堕落的地步之前,他不能引入一个竞争对手的项目,这将是错误的。

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I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

我认为对我来说,最糟糕和最阴险的拖延是研究。我会在小说中寻找一些事实或数据,在我意识到之前,我已经浪费了整个上午的时间来钻研这个主题,却一个字也没写。

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

研究挑战了对死亡的唯物主义理解,根据这种理解,生物死亡代表着存在和所有意识活动的最终目的。

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

人们认为计算机会做人类所做的一切。不好的。人与人之间是不同的,他们都是真的不同于电脑。

If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

如果我们看到一个人坐在轮椅上,我们认为他不能走路。也许他们可以走三、四、五步。对他们来说,这意味着他们可以走路。